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These waves continue to move on in. what we're expectsiing in hawai the best estimate is that highest waves would likely be in hilo harbor. and that will be anywhere between six or eight feet. and this is like a surge of water. so it's not one big wave that you're going to see come up. you'll watch the water pull back and then we'll watch that steady stream of water begin to push inland. so these are the things that we're going to be watching as we take a look at some of these tower kamz ayou to tower cams. we're going to dip in now to our affiliate kohn and hear what they have to say. >> -- d...

>> the pacific is a very large ocean basin here. and we're talking about one corner, southeast corner, where all of this activity started at 8:34 hawaii standard time last night, 14 1/2 hours now -- almost 15 hours. we're talking about a wave crossing the pacific. we're already seeing it hit portions of central america, south america, many islands in the south pacific. and now waiting for any potential impact here in hawaii with possible future impacts in japan, russia, alaska, and west coast of the united states. >> and a lot of this is very new science. we're learning as we go along. >> all ...

Especially people that live along the coastlines. we were at oahu at 10:00 this morning. the city and state did close the main roads along the low lying areas on the winward side of the island and the leeward side of the island. so hopefully most of those people did take heed and leave. right there it looks like an emergency vehicle. >> yes. some type of emergency workers. >> we're going to continue to watch the live pictures streaming in from our affiliate there. kitv and kohn. we're seeing images coming from waikiki beach and then images coming from hilo. hilo in particular. the hilo side of...

Reading from the bouies? >> possibly from some of those bouies. we've been seeing them certainly off shore. but then we also have gauges and observations a little bit closer right on the island itself. so we'll be monitoring those gauges and watch them as well. we certainly saw some big drops about an hour ago, maybe 200 miles away from hawaii. so we'll watch as time progresses. you know, that could be an hour from now that we'll start to see the bigger waves begin to pull in. >> all right. we're going it continue to listen to live coverage from our affiliate kohn now as we watch this live cov...

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